How the Global Food Crisis Will Impact Americans in 2012

The American people have never really know Food Riots or any major Food shortages but this will soon change. The global demand for food to feed the now 7 billion people, coupled with a weakening US dollar will mean a more even playing field for consumers to buy food. This will mean that America's ability to remain insulated from the global food crisis will begin to end very soon.

You want to be prepared so your family is not bankrupted with high food prices, or worse, going hungry when food is unaffordable. "Just doing something" however, is not a plan.

1) Don't stock up on expensive Freeze Dried food. You might never eat it and it is too costly to buy enough to be adequately prepared.

2) Don't just go out and buy 100 cans of beans. It may seem like the "Rambo" survivalist thing to do, but your family will not want to eat beans, nor will they provide a balanced diet.

3) Don't buy Army MRE's and expect that you'll live off of them. Even if you can afford them (at $6-$7 per meal, that's like $20 per day), there are many outfits that are selling surplus MRE's that have sat in the scorching heat of Iraq or Afghanistan. The shelf life of these is no longer 10 years....